The situation in the telecoms market has come to a crescendo. Just to take you back: the first years of the mobile revolution starting in the mid-90s were very difficult for telecom players.Many foreign companies left India after incurring heavy losses. The change in regulation (the so-called New Telecom Poli cy) from fixed licence payments to a percentage of revenue kickstarted industry growth at an accelerated pace, particularly between 2001 and 2008-09. Introduction of pay per second in 2009 Read more..

The unique aspect of the just concluded spectrum auction is that while earlier auctions were `survival auctions' with most spectrum coming from expiry of licenses, this time significant portion of the over 2,300 MHz spectrum available was Fresh spectrum across multiple bands. The previous three auctions all together offered only 1,280 MHz of spectrum (390 MHz in November 2012, 420 MHz in February 2014 and 470 MHz in March 2015) . This included spectrum existing service providers were using Read more..

In the end it has happened Reliance Industries (RIL) has announced the official opening of its telecoms franchise, Jio. Few things have kept stakeholders in the Indian telecoms industry so busy as the re-entrance into the market of RIL. As far as I know, it is also one of the most costly startup projects of a new telecoms company in the world. So, what can we expect from this?First of all, I have to assume that the journey till today has been just as much a learning experience for RIL as it Read more..